Onmyou 2: Nure-Onna, Akira

“Alright!” Kaki shouted as he finished singing, as the TV showed his score of 92%.

“Wowsie, tats rad!”

“So er, Kiyoko, can you introduce me to your friends?” Kaki used the fact that Kiyoko, despite having a boyfriend, has a lot of female friends and is using her to help him get with one of her friends.

“Hmm, sure. They won’t mind.” Kiyoko said as she started to type on her phone.

This entire time, only Kaki, Akaki, Kiyoko, and Akira were enjoying themself and singing, while Hyoka and I were sitting in a corner playing the tiny instruments.

I still can’t get the thought of what happened out of my head.

“... Enemy Search.” I mumbled to myself, and once again, the blue screen appeared in front of me, with the same coloured dots, with the only difference being that the dot is rearranged according to how we are sitting now.

Like before, Akira’s dot is red.

I closed my eyes for a quick second, and the blue screen disappeared.

“...Not gonna sing?” Hyoka asked with a cold, emotionless tone.

“Not a fan of Karaoke. How about you?”

“Tired.”

“Is that why you’re this emotionless?”

“That’s how I always am.”

“Ah.” Well, this is awkward.

“Anyways… you sense it right?”

“...Eh? What do you mean by that?”

“You’ve detected the Ayakashi within this room, didn’t you?”

Ayakashi? The heck is she saying? Is she one of those chunibyou?

“We’re fellow onmyoji, so there’s no need to hide our identity.”

Yup, she’s 100% a chunibyou.

“Erm… I think you’re mistaken.”

“Did I? When, why did you’re face turn pale whenever you look at Akira?”

“Erm, that’s because…”

“Don’t worry. I’m a Rank 3 Onmyouji, even if you’re a newbie, I’ll protect you.”

“Everyone, are you guys enjoying this mixer?” Akira spoke through the mic, as she grabbed Akaki’s arms closely.

“Yeah!” Akaki replied with a giant smile on his face.

“I was expecting a bit more, but I enjoy it… and you better keep your promise, kiyoko.”

“Hmm… it ain't that bad. Could have brought in more peps.”

“How about you two?” Akari stared at us with open eyes, as if staring at her prey.

“Sure…” I replied reluctantly, while Hyoka simply nodded her head. Though I doubt that was a genuine answer…

“If that’s the case… thanks for the meal.”

Suddenly, Akira’s body transformed… from a human into a snake with the head of a woman.

“AH!! What the heck!! Get off me!!” The transformed Akira wrapped herself around Akaki, strangling him.

“GAH GAH!!”

“Oi, what the heck is happening!”

“Kirapi… you’re not Kirapi!”

“I am, Kiyopyun!” The transformed Akira’s snake-like body suddenly increased in length, blocking the door, our only exit from the room.

“Wh, what are you going to do to us?” Kaki asked nervously, as he tried to move away from Akira’s body as possible.

However, this didn’t work out as Kaki and Kiyoko was caught off guard and are now being strangled to death by Akira’s body.

“Gah…”

“Kira…pi…. why?”

“I’m a Ayakashi. You humans are just food to me.”

“Kaki! Akaki!”

“Now, it’s your turn, Hyoka, Mahiro.”

I braced myself to be attacked by her, but Hyoka, who remain calm, took out a blue piece of paper that resembled a talisman, and started to chant

“Earth, Water, Metal, Three elements, form into multiple blades to piece my enemy. Kyo Kyo Issen.”

“This isn’t the time to do your chunnibyou play!”

“Chunnibyou?” As Hyoka finished her chant, a faint blue light emitted from the talisman, creating multiple blades of ice surrounding her.

“A, An Onmyouji!?” Akira shouted in shock and fear. Without giving her any time to respond, Hyoka fired off the blade of ice, cutting Akira’s body into multiple pieces and cutting off her head, freeing Akaki from her grasp.

“Kyo Kyo Ritsuo.”

“Akaki!” I touched Akaki’s body, and luckily his still alive; he just fainted.

Kiyoko and Kaki also fainted; it seems like what just happened to Akira was a little too much for them to handle.

“You weren’t kidding when you said you’re an Onmyoji…”

“And you weren’t kidding when you said you’re not. Despite that, I’m surprised you didn’t faint from seeing this scene.”

“...Now that you say it… I’m not feeling nauseous or anything.” Why indeed. Even when young, no matter how badly I injured myself, no matter how much blood flowed out of my body, I didn’t cry.

“Damm you!!” Suddenly, Akira’s sliced body parts slowly attached themselves back together. Once fully regenerated, she quickly captured Hyoka by wrapping her body around her.

“Hyoka!”

“Tch… what strong regeneration skill…” Hyoka tried to break free from Akira’s grasp but failed.

“Damm you! You’re first on my list!”

“Akira, aren’t you and Hyoka friends!?” I shouted, trying to stall for time, hoping to give Hyoka some time to free herself.

“I never once considered her a friend. To us, Ayakashi, you humans are just food!” As she said, Akira wrapped her tail around my neck, and I could feel my neck getting squeezed

“Gah!”

“Now, Hyoka, before eating you, I’ll kill this boy in front of you first!” Akira laughed, hoping to see something happen, but instead, Hyoka remained calm and replied with a monotonous tone as usual.

“Go ahead.”

“Tch. Fine!”

“GAH!!” Akira started to squeeze my neck tighter than before, and it’s getting harder to breathe… I felt my vision starting to blur… my ears began to ring…and slowly, I felt my consciousness slowly fade away.